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Tag Name "Resist" (633)

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I've got at least two major project ideas that I've been chewing on for several years in my head and I've been trying to resist them both. But I have learned over the years that when they don't go away and they're still in there, you probably have to resign yourself to the fact that you're going to do something about them.
James Balog
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Educators must resist the quest for certainty. If there were certainty there would be no scientific advancement. So it is with morals and patriotism.
John Goodlad
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Look, we understood we couldn't make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States, but we could criminalize their common pleasure. We understood that drugs were not the health problem we were making them out to be, but it was such a perfect issue for the Nixon White House that we couldn't resist it.
John Ehrlichman
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I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.
Stephen Daldry
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No one need fear to listen to the voice of God unless he has already made up his mind to resist it.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Whoever uses force without Right ... puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor.
John Locke
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The burden imparted by God is lifted once we have prayed, but the heaviness from the enemy cannot be raised unless we fight and resist in prayer.
Watchman Nee
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When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
Akhenaton
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Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.
Taylor Caldwell
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No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.
C. S. Lewis
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Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.
Philip Zimbardo
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How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change
Elizabeth Lesser
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What kind of world does the humanitarian contemplate as affording him full scope? It could only be a world filled with breadlines and hospitals, in which nobody retained the natural power of a human being to help himself or to resist having things done to him. And that is precisely the world that the humanitarian arranges when he gets his way.
Isabel Paterson
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As long as I think I 'should' do it, I'll resist it, even if I want very much to do it.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
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Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a departmental canteen.
John le Carre
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Our main agenda is to have all guns banned of course. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter if you have to distort facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed.
Sarah Brady
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When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I'm afraid that's inappropriate behavior for the schoolyard, Xavier teased. I know my charm is hard to resist, but please tray and control yourself.
Alexandra Adornetto
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We resist Joy on this planet more than we resist war.
Marianne Williamson
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What you resist persist.
Carl Jung
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C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist.
Philip Yancey
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The poverty fighters resent the climate-change folks climate folks hold summits without reference to biodiversity the food advocates resist the biodiversity protectors. They all need to go on safari together.
Thomas Friedman
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If you insist, how can I resist?
Toni Gonzaga
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Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good.
Eliphas Levi
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